2033 will finally be the year of linux desktop

Not much different. Foldable phones will be widespread, American cars will be bigger, shaving machines will have more blades, natural disasters will be more common. We will go through one or two more cycles of drought/forest fires and heavy rains/floodings. We will see one or two mass migrations from India, Pakistan and Africa resulting in first climate refuge camps on the borders of EU.

Same as it does now, just with slightly less effective money.

My guess: Electric vehicles everywhere, protests, more linux users, and portless phones will be the norm

Edit: Oh yeah privacy is dead or at least much more harder to obtain

We will likely have hit 1.5 + degrees of warming in 10 years time so our society may look quite different. It’s likely that our supply chains will be disrupted by this and become more localised as rising temperatures / intensifying weather events impact our capacity to grow / distribute as much food as we do now. There may potentially be Pacific Nations that no longer exist due to sea level rise. We will likely also see the beginning of a significant climate refugee crisis that nations in the global north will struggle to respond to.

In the west and culturally, a post-boomer period will have begun. And I think there’ll be continued evaluation of what mistakes that era made especially as climate change looms as an increasingly damaging debt. In a similar vein, the relationship with capitalism and big corps is, I think, going to get messy and more polarised, in part because the mistakes we’ve made will be hard to disentangle for many.

Overall, I suspect that for many paying attention, the downfall of the west will seem more and more plausible and closer and that will create a contentious atmosphere.

More climate refugees, more crop failures due to worsening climate change, more deaths due to climate change

Civilization will be crawling on its hands and knees, dying.

The rich will all be trying to pile into New Zealand.

America will be a warzone.

I’ll have been killed by a flash mob stealing food from vulnerable houses.

Canada will be overrun by refugees, with rampant disease and cannibalism in the camps.

The republicans in the USA will still deny climate change, saying it’s all a hoax.

The middle east and india will be uninhabitable.

Nuclear weapons use will be widespread.

The Internet won’t exist anymore.

Everyone reading this comment will be dead.

With all the dystopian content I’ve been consuming lately I’d say we’re heading to an age of

Mass surveilance
Regionalistic Economies in place of globalism
Widening wealth disparity
Intensified distrust of our governments

That is if the tensions in Asia Pacific don’t turn into an all out conflict ( Live in PH )

Hopefully not a live action Cyberpunk 2077

Bernie Sanders will be announcing his bid for presidency

I hope these things will happen

• Governments invest more money on grid energy storage

• green hydrogen becomes more common

I fear these will also:

• global warming gets worse

• Trump gets elected

• Watching a few more seasons of the Shitshow is surprisingly entertaining

It’s very hard to tell. Most decades have inertia that carry on 3-4 years in. You didn’t see people vaping or people with full beards drinking craft beer until 2013.

It’s hard to tell what’s seeping into the new decade from the last decade, what’s here to stay, and what’s new to come. Are NFTs the new thing? Or just a symptom of the boom in crypto the 20-teens.

I do predict AI will be here to stay, though.

I don’t think I can give a better or more creative answer than what’s already here.

But I can assure you, people in ten years will come back to this thread to see how the predictions fared.

AI will make immense progress and all jobs that require a computer will be handed over to AI and robots. There will be hardly any middle managers left. People will do manual or personal stuff that robots cannot do.

Depending on who owns the AI, the distribution of wealth decides which jobs are available. I would bet on a small group of people who are going to decide what humanity will do.

The problem is that AI requires energy. At one point, the decision has to be made whether energy is used for bricks or bytes. Bytes will be prefered so most people will live in tiny rooms.

Since there is not much work to be done, and energy is expensive, people will spent most of their time doing something energy-efficient. Cities will be built for walking distances.